The financing behaviour of listed Chinese firms

British Accounting Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-258

  Zou, Hong ^a   Xiao, Jason Zezhong ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Capital structure; China; Financing behaviour; Pecking order hypothesis; Static trade off model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747334655     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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